A caller who identified himself as Joe told Savage he had been contemplating suicide for the past several months, especially in the past week.

Joe said that when he learned of Williams suicide, he asked himself, If a guy like that could, why not me?

But on his show Tuesday, Savage, who disclosed he and Williams lived in the same San Francisco-area neighborhood, urged any listeners who might be considering suicide to think about how it would affect their loved ones.

Joe was tuned in.

Your show yesterday  Im not going to say prevented me  but it did make me think about my kids and my wife, the caller said.

Savage said he met Williams many times when the two were walking their dogs.

Our dogs knew each other quite well, he said on his show Tuesday. We never talked politics, because we were at opposite ends of the spectrum.

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You are doing a apples and oranges... This is not the right way to look at it. In 2005 Savage had already an established show with Talk Radio Network was aired on 300+ stations with approx 9-10 million weekly listeners.

in 2012 Savage left TRN, and was off the air for 3 months. This new show with Cumulus started out less then a year ago on 200 stations with 3 million listeners (Talkers) and he is been steadily growing month to month.

By the way, Eric Stanger, the Vice President of Operations and Affiliate Marketing for The Sean Hannity Show has different audience numbers for Sean’s radio show: “In total, the Sean Hannity Show airs on more than 500 radio stations nationwide, with an estimated audience of over 11 million listeners”

>>> Savage might want to look over his shoulder..the latest round of people meter ratings show WOR is now beating WABC on Long Island, the New Jersey suburbs and Westchester County, though WABC still leads in the city. Probably the first time in 20 years WOR has beaten WABC in all three suburban markets <<<

This has nothing to do with Rush or Sean. It has everything to do with the Mets.

“ Mark Levin: The Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity paid at least $757,000 primarily to sponsor his radio show  a sponsorship that covered part of the 2012 cycle, when he joined David Koch and AFP president Tim Phillips in boosting Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch. After AFP ended its sponsorship, Levin began doing ads for the Tea Party Patriots, touting its campaign to fire House Speaker John Boehner.

>>>”He also apologized for endorsing Hatch, whom some Tea Party Patriots leaders opposed.”<<<

A POLITICO review of filings with the Internal Revenue Service and Federal Election Commission, as well as interviews and reviews of radio shows, found that conservative groups spent nearly $22 million to broker and pay for involved advertising relationships known as sponsorships with a handful of influential talkers including Beck, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh between the first talk radio deals in 2008 and the end of 2012. Since then, the sponsorship deals have grown more lucrative and tea party-oriented, with legacy groups like The Heritage Foundation ending their sponsorships and groups like the Tea Party Patriots placing big ad buys

“Levin also had a general discussion on his show yesterday about why people shouldnt get too excited about radio ratings. Basically, its unfair to compare hosts on shows with different strength signals”

Did he really say it? Well, Levin was bragging on for years he is beating Savage in the ratings when Savage was opposite him on the weaker strength signal WOR (Where Sean is now).

“We have reached out to Premiere Networks, the Clear Channel subsidiary that syndicates Hannity, for comment, (but have yet to hear back”).

***UPDATE:***

Eric Stanger, the Vice President of Operations and Affiliate Marketing for The Sean Hannity Show writes in response:

Its puzzling that Michael Savage would want to brag about his listening audience. Despite his claims, the numbers show that Savage is losing the audience that he inherited from Sean Hannity in droves, on the radio stations that Sean spent 17 years building.
In New York on WABC-AM as well as on Dallas on WBAP-AM, in the key demo of A25-54, Savage has lost a whopping 49% of the audience that he inherited from Sean Hannity.
Meanwhile, Sean Hannity has more than doubled the total audiences where has started on new stations after leaving Cumulus in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
[...] In total, the Sean Hannity Show airs on more than 500 radio stations nationwide, with an estimated audience of over 11 million listeners, while the Savage Nation airs on around 200 stations with an estimated audience of less than 3 million.